meaſure, the others being moſtly confined to local, or provincial diſiricts.
Length of the Olympic ſtadium.The Olympic ſtadium conſiſted of 600 Greek feet, as appearsfrom ſeveral authorities.
From Herodotus.Herodotus ſays[1], "that the pyramids of Egypt were 100 ὀργυιαὶ, or fathoms, in height, and that 100 legal fathoms were equal to a ſtadium of ſix plethra. The fathom meaſures ſix feet, or four cubits, and each foot meaſures four palms, (τετραπαλαίϛων) and each cubit ſix palms." The word δίκαιαι here uſed implies, I think, that the meaſures above ſpecified were of the ſtandard or eſtabliſhed kind.
From Hero.Hero ſays, the Radium contained 600 [2] Philetaerian feet.
From Suidas.Suidas ſays, the ſtadium[3] contained 600 feet, and the plethron 100 feet.
From Strabo.Strabo ſays, that moſt people counted [4] 8 ſtadia to be equal
A meaſure apparently different given by Collumella
Several of the Roman Writers indeed aſſign an apparently different meaſure to the ſtadium. Columella ſays[5], that a ſtadium contains 125 paces, which, he ſays, make, 625 feet; (each paſſus,
- ↑ Οὔτω αἱ μὲν πυραμίδες εἰσὶ ἑκατὸν ὀργυιέων, αἱ δ' ἑκατὸν ὀργυιαὶ δίκαιαί εἰσι ϛάδιον ἑξάπλεθρον ἑξαπέδου μὲν τῆς ὀργυιῆς μετρεομένης ϗ̀ τετραπήχεος, τῶν ποδῶν μὲν τετραπαλαίϛων ἐόντων, τοῦ δὲ πήχεος, ἑξαπαλαίϛου. Herod. lib. ii. c. 149. Ed. Weſſel.
- ↑ Hero. in Iſagoge.
- ↑ Vox. Στάδιον.
- ↑ Strabon. lib. vii.
- ↑ Stadium deinde habet paſſus 125, id eſt pedes 625, quæ octles multiplcats efficit mille paſſus, ſic veniunt quinque milla pedum. Collumel, lib. v. c. 1.
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